Job loss and mental health during the COVID-19 lockdown: Evidence from South Africa.
<h4>Objectives</h4>Existing literature on how employment loss affects depression has struggled to address potential endogeneity bias caused by reverse causality. The COVID-19 pandemic offers a unique natural experiment because the source of unemployment is very likely to be exogenous to...
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| Main Authors: | Dorrit Posel, Adeola Oyenubi, Umakrishnan Kollamparambil |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2021-01-01
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| Series: | PLoS ONE |
| Online Access: | https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0249352&type=printable |
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